Financial Planning and Analysis Manager - Offshore

The Manager – FP&A and Business Finance Partnering plays a pivotal role in supporting leadership with data-driven insights to facilitate informed decision-making. This position involves analyzing financial and operational data to drive business growth, profitability, and strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in finance business partnering or FP&A, particularly within consulting, professional services, or project-driven environments, and will work closely with business and functional leaders to provide actionable financial analysis and support.

Key Responsibilities

- Report on monthly performance by analyzing actual results against budget and forecasts, identifying key variances, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Conduct monthly profit and cost center reviews to ensure accurate revenue and cost reporting.
- Collaborate with business leaders to analyze revenue, profitability, operating expenses, headcount, staff costs, utilization, and resource capacity.
- Support the annual budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and monthly rolling forecast processes, ensuring alignment of financial targets with business strategy.
- Develop financial models, perform scenario analysis, and prepare business cases to support strategic initiatives, investments, pricing decisions, and resource allocation.
- Partner with commercial and delivery teams to evaluate opportunity pricing, resource mix, delivery costs, risks, and expected margins.
- Assist in resource and capacity planning, including grade-level cost rate reviews, to maintain competitive and profitable resource pricing.
- Provide senior management with data-driven insights through dashboards, reports, and executive presentations to support business decisions.
- Drive automation and continuous improvement of management information systems (MIS), KPI reporting, dashboards, forecasting, and FP&A processes.
- Offer ad-hoc support on strategic initiatives across the organization.

Required Qualifications

- 10 to 12 years of experience in FP&A, Finance Business Partnering, Commercial Finance, or Management Accounting.
- Proven background in consulting, professional services, Big 4 advisory, IT/technology services, or other project-based business environments.
- Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modeling, profitability analysis, and management reporting.
- Solid understanding of project economics, resource planning, pricing, margins, utilization, and cost management.
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Power BI or other business intelligence tools is advantageous.
- Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle is preferred.
- Professional finance qualification such as CA, ACCA, CMA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent is highly desirable.
- Excellent commercial acumen, analytical capabilities, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to communicate complex financial insights effectively to senior leadership.

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of finance and business strategy, contributing directly to the company’s growth and operational excellence. Candidates with a strong analytical mindset and a collaborative approach will thrive in this dynamic environment.